Today’s WPOI (Word Person of Interest) Helen Souness comes to us from Australia. She is the new General Manager of Envato’s Marketplace! She has extensive experience and brings a global mentality to her new position. Get to know Helen after the jump.
Philip Arthur Moore shared yesterday the release of 3 new themes on WordPress.com that may have a more than a few users making some switches today. And why the heck not since Philip has dubbed any day that releases 3 themes as “Threeme Day” – make the best of it, shall we? The 3 new themes, Blocco, Crafty, and Hustle Express are all blogger and publisher themes, not like some the magazine themes we’ve seen release recently. Hustle will set you back $68 dollars while Blocco comes in at $75:
Pete Davies, the Growth Team Lead at Automattic, has recently shared an epic list of tools and applications that can help you understand not only how WordPress.com tracks and measures their growth but also how they optimize their experience for their users. Up until just a few short years ago the tracking opportunities really weren’t there – the rise of better tools and better use has continued to platform WordPress.com as a ever-growing website and service: I tell anybody that will listen that much of the work I do on growth and analytics for WordPress.com wasn’t really possible until the last […]
How’s everyone’s Thursday? Did you get any snow? I sure am and so did my fellow intern Cam. Well, just like the post office, we are here to give the daily roundup: Rain, sleet, snow, or shine. Ok, maybe I added the snow part, but still. Here’s some new plugins for you guys to check out. Stay warm out here!
Pippin Williamson shared his thoughts recently with Matt Medeiros on how he created a WordPress-powered marketplace and was big on helping others to see the possibility of actually creating your own, rather than leverage or completely bank on the large and existing networks, like WordPress.com or ThemeForest. Pippin lays out the strategy fairly concisely: Create great products, in his case, plugins. Create great customer service. Don’t be naive, creating a business is tough work. Do it! Scaling the business, staffing, and compensation strategy matters! Reinvest in your own product. It might be worth your next 64 minutes if you’ve got some time […]
We’ve mentioned that DradCast was coming and it hasn’t even been two full weeks and they actually have two broadcasts in the can – nice! Using Google Hangouts they’ve recorded two episodes with Cory Miller and John Hawkins which have covered a host of topics, from theme development, GPL, the global economy, design, and more. It would be hard to pin-down exactly what each episode is succinctly about but that doesn’t really bother me at this time – I love the fresh flavor and conversation style of the work so far and how could you possibly go wrong with the world’s longest intro bumper ever? […]
Are you familiar with hooks, actions and filters? If not, then this might be your seriously-simple primer. Let me quickly give you some thoughts about hooks, actions and filters. You can probably take it from there.
The WordPress ecosystem as we see and love it today is a result of contributions in one way or the other towards making it better. Since WordPress was released in 2003 a lot of changes has happened and it keeps getting better and adding more features and functionality with each major release. You can also remember how I shared my story about my personal journey with WordPress here. No matter your skills set whether you are a designer, developer, or just someone who uses WordPress you can give back to WordPress. Below are some ways you can give back to WordPress in […]
Happy #humpday everyone! The week is half way over. I hope you have been able to make it a productive stretch and make the rest of the week just as productive. I have an updated theme to share today and a few new plugins as well for today’s roundup. I’ve always been a fan of This Day in History , so the A Year Ago Today plugin seems like fun for those blogs that are at least a year old. Here’s the rest of the bunch:
What!?! Another Jetpack update? When Jetpack first came out, I was in love. Such a great bunch of tools in one. This one plugin made many others obsolete and it tied into many of the WordPress.com services that are really slick. I remember first opening it up and seeing the “coming soon” boxes. It was exciting. But when is enough, enough?
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